Jack Tan toughed it out after a long day of adverse conditions to place second at Adidas Outdoor Nationals in Greensboro, North Carolina! Way to go, Jack! #polevaultcarolina #wakefieldhighschooltrackandfield #adidasnationals
Congratulations to Antonio San Miguel for winning the U18 and U20 Puerto Rican National Championships! Antonio! Estamos orgullosos de ti! #puertorico #athletismofapur #polevaultcarolina
We teach confidence through pole vault. Recently, on March 17-19, thirteen Pole Vault Carolina athletes competed at the 2023 Adidas Track and Field Indoor Nationals in Virginia Beach, VA! Jack Tan, Summer Laskey, Colin Troan, Abigail Cornell, Ayana Jackson, Lloyd Armstrong, Antonio San Miguel, Danica McCarron, Ali Laros, Larkin Toper, Lucie Haws, Thea Milley, and Tessa Kranick. In preparation for this meet, we asked our athletes to compete and be coachable and we were pleased with how they handled themselves. The flights for nationals…
It was exactly 6 years ago that we signed the lease for our indoor facility. We had been renting the track at a local high school, and for a time, jumping in our side yard! We only intended to have the space through the cold and rainy indoor season, but athletes kept showing up for practice. The ability to train independent of the weather meant that our vaulters benefitted from consistent practices and later that season, performed at the highest…
What is your potential?To find out, join us on Sundays at 3 pm for a Beginner’s Clinic!At Pole Vault Carolina, we offer instruction in the pole vault, high jump, and long jump, and teach athletes to surmount obstacles on the field and in life. Meet Alden. She started vaulting in the second semester of her 7th grade year. Covid hit, she kept training at home, and then she made the most of every practice last season. This year Alden walked…
These workouts are to be done Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays. Please see Coach with any questions! Warm up Jog 400 meters Stretches Leg Drills 2 x 100’ each Lunges High Knees Butt Kicks A-Skip B-skip Side-to-side Straight legs 2 High Knees – 2 Straight Legs Karaoke Running- 60% speed – 2 sets with 5 minutes rest between sets 3 x 50 meters 3 x 100 meters Strength Pull Ups 30 in one day (if too easy do them with legs extended)…
DO YOU SEE THE PRIDE on Abbie’s face? If you want to feel this way too, Beginner’s Clinics are Sundays at 3 pm.If you are already vaulting part time, think about what you can achieve if you practice consistently. Sophomore Abbie started pole vaulting in November of 2020 and she made the most of every opportunity to compete. By spring she was jumping 10’. When Coach told her that he thought she could qualify for states, she excitedly put her…
13 Pole Vault Carolina athletes competed at the NCHSAA state championships last weekend!! Overall finishers: First place – 1Second place – 2Fourth place – 2Fifth place – 1Sixth place – 2Eighth place – 2 Twelfth place – 1 Maddie Davies is the 4A STATE CHAMPION!! She missed at a new PR! Katie Yu jumped a new PR of 11’6 in the 4A meet, taking the number 2 spot! Abbie Cornell came in at 4th in 4A, just missing at a new PR! Bailey Tart…
The Pole Vault Carolina Challenge is a series of 3 meets. Competing athletes have been grouped into 4 teams of athletes across experience levels. Beginning with The Pole Vault Carolina TAKEOFF Magazine Invitational on Friday Jan. 29 and ending with The Pole Vault Carolina Indoor Championships on February 26, athletes will compete in the team format. Here are the details:Each team will select a team captain. Among themselves, each team must come up with a team name, coordinate what they…
This installment of Makes and Misses was written by Jose R. San Miguel, and originally published in The TAKEOFF Magazine, December 2020. In March 2020, the world as we knew it came to a grinding halt. No more school; gatherings with friends; no sports or New Balance Nationals; not even the Olympic Games. But what happened to athletic dreams during the shutdown? For some, track careers ended before they realized they had taken their last jump. Opportunities to earn…
